{"id":264293,"date":"2016-08-28T18:06:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/corbyn-pledges-to-make-one-million-new-homes\/"},"modified":"2016-08-28T18:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T18:06:56","slug":"corbyn-pledges-to-make-one-million-new-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/corbyn-pledges-to-make-one-million-new-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Corbyn pledges to make one million new homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has put together a massive public investment program that includes building up to one million homes across Britain, new policy papers show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a set of new policy papers released by Corbyn\u2019s campaign on Saturday, a future UK government run by the opposition leader would borrow \u00a315 billion a year to build the houses, half of which are said to be council homes.<\/p>\n<p>The program would be implemented during a five-year parliament and seeks to provide housing tenants with new safeguards such as secure three-year contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Protection from \u201cunreasonable rent increases\u201d was another objective that the papers said Corbyn was seeking to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>The housing plan is part of a \u00a3500 billion public investment that Corbyn\u2019s team describes as \u201chighly efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The veteran politician\u2019s campaign said the huge government borrowing program was going to be a good deal for taxpayers as it benefitted the economy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/08\/28\/482117\/UK-Corbyn-Labour-Smith\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has put together a massive public investment program that includes building up to one million homes across Britain, new policy papers show. According to a set of new policy papers released by Corbyn\u2019s campaign on Saturday, a future UK government run by the opposition leader would borrow \u00a315 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}